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Continuing their youth movement, the Yanks traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres today for a AA relief prospect.

Kelley went 3-6, 4.53, ERA+ 86 for the Yanks in 2014 with four saves. In his only other year as a Yankee, the 30 year old went 4-2, 4.39, ERA+ 92 in 2013.

For his career, Kelley is 17-17, 3.94, ERA+ 101 (100 is average) with 4 saves.

In return, the Yanks receive a young pitcher who spent the year in AA before getting shut down in June due to an elbow injury.

Johnny Barbato, 22, is a righty pitcher who was 2-2, 2.87, with 16 saves at AA before the elbow injury. In 27 games, 31 1/3 IP, he struck out 33. For his minor league career, Barbato is 12-13, 3.79, 256 K in 249 2/3 IP. Barbato projects as a setup man.

It appears to be another move in order to stockpile young arms for the future (and have players under team control financially) . It appears Cashman may be sacrificing 2015 and 2016 in order to try to build something long lasting for 2017-2025 by going for youth (Eovaldi, Gregorious, Barbato…).

Using a lineup that looked like something out of one of those spring training games where you recognize no one because they are all minor leaguers wearing numbers in the seventies, the Yanks beat Boston Friday night, 3-2.

Boston got an unearned run in the second but the Yanks came back with two in the third. A passed ball on a strikeout and another passed ball put Eury Perez on second. Cervelli singled in Perez and after Chris Young singled, Cervelli scored when John Ryan Murphy hit into a force but there was an error on the play.

The Yanks went up 3-1 in the sixth on a Zelous Wheeler SF.

Boston cut it to 3-2 in the seventh when Kelley gave up a HR but that was it.

The Yanks got 2 in the third when Ichiro reached on an error, Pirela tripled in his first MLB bat to knock in Ichiro and Jeter drove in Pirela on an RBI groundout.

They got two more in the fifth on a 2-run double by Jeter (hit #3460).

Chase Headley’s HR in the 8th (his 12th overall) finished off the scoring.

Earlier in the day, the Yanks picked up OF Eury Perez and DFA’d Josh Outman. The team has used a franchise-record 57 players this year.

The win ensures that the Yanks will not have their first losing season since 1992. They are now 81-75 with six games left. One more win and they have a winning season, if not a play0ff-bound one. They remain two games ahead of Toronto for second place in the AL East. They are four out of the last wild card spot with just six games to go.

Derek Jeter hit his first (and only?) Yankee Stadium HR of the year tonight in the Yankees 3-2 win over Toronto.

You wonder, with only 10 games left in Jeter’s final season, if career HR #260 will be his last. He had two hits to move his career total up to 3453.

The Yanks won in the bottom of the 9th on an error.

The Yanks broke a scoreless tie in the fifth on a Drew double, and Jeter’s fourth HR of the year made it 2-0 in the sixth.

But Shawn Kelley gave up a two-run HR to Jose Bautista in the 8th to spoil Shane Greene’s bid for a win.

In the bottom of the 9th, Chris Young singled, Antoan Richardson PR and stole second and Brett Gardner bunted Richardson to third. Chase Headley hit a grounder through the legs of 1B Adam Lind and Richardson scored to win the game for the Yanks.

With the win, the Yanks improved to 78-74 and surpassed the Blue Jays for second place in the AL East. With ten games to go, they are five out of the final wild card spot.

This has been the story of the Yankees’ season in 2014—a good pitching performance sabotaged by an underperforming, often non-existent offense. The OPS+ is 94, the ERA + 104. That more or less tells you a lot. (100 is average, the higher the better).

Tampa Bay scored with two out in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Yanks 1-0 Monday night.

Last time out, Chris Capuano only got one out. This time, he pitched six shutout, two-hit innings in lowering his overall ERA to 4.55. 6 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 4 walks and 4 K.

The Yanks got just six hits in the game. Derek Jeter, 0 for his last 24, was given the day off.

With the loss, and Baltimore’s win, the inevitable finally happened, the Yanks were eliminated from winning the division. As far as that final playoff spot goes, they are now six back with 13 to go and must jump over four teams to do so. Although not mathematically eliminated yet, you can stick a fork in them. Just being realistic, here.

At 76-73, it is looking more and more likely that the Yanks won’t match last year’s record of 85-77, and will wind up with their worst season since 1992, which was their last season under .500. They have to win six of the remaining 13 games to finish above .500.

If they can get hot, they could pass Toronto (and yes, the Yanks do have games left against the Blue Jays) for second place in the division. Small consolation, since the second place won’t come with a wild card berth.

In related news, Mark Newman is stepping down as Farm Director, and Masahiro Tanaka threw five innings in instructional league. Tanaka may be back this weekend.

The Yanks executed a double steal, with Chris Young stealing home on the play, and that run was the deciding run in a 3-2 Yankees win on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore.

Brian McCann homered with one out in the top of the second. Mark Teixeira then walked, and Young doubled him to third. Antoan Richardson singled in a run and after Zelous Wheeler struck out, Young and Richardson executed their double steal.

The Orioles scored single runs in the third and sixth, but the Yanks held on to win 3-2.

The Yanks stay in 3rd place in the AL East, 76-71, one game behind second-place Toronto. (They are 11 1/2 behind first-place Baltimore with 15 to play). As for that final playoff spot, they are five out with 15 to go.

Derek Jeter is 0 for his last 20. His 0 for 3 Saturday dropped his batting average to .251. He is stuck on 3450 hits. Since August 2nd, he has dropped 27 points off the batting average and is hitting .177 since then. It’s tough to see. Hopefully the Captain has a couple of multi-hit games left in him. There are just two weeks left in his career. The batting average is low enough (almost 60 points below his career batting average of .310), and you’d hate to see it get below .250.

Newly acquired OF Chris Young broke up a no-hit bid with one out in the 8th, and then hit a 3-run GW HR in the 9th as the Yanks came back from 4-0 down to win 5-4 over Tampa Bay Thursday night.

Michael Pineda had given up two HR to Yunel Escobar—a 3-run shot in the 4th and a solo HR in the 7th—to put the Yanks into a 4-0 hole. Worse yet, Alex Cobb was pitching a no-no for the Rays.

But in the 8th, Cobb lost the no-no when Young doubled with one out. After a pitching change, PH Martin Prado made the score 4-2 when he homered (11th overall). Later in that inning the Yanks caught a break when Jeter, after being HBP, wasn’t severely hurt. X-rays on his forearm proved negative.

Jeter went 0-3 and is down to .255. He’s stuck on 3450 career hits.

In the 9th, Chase Headley was HBP on the chin. He will get x-rays on his jaw (and in another game, Miami OF Giancarlo Stanton was HBP in the face as well). After a double by Ichiro and a Wheeler strikeout, Young hit his game-winning blast, his 10th overall HR of the season.

Pineda went 7 1/3 IP, 4 R, 10 H, 0 walks and 2 K. 2.20.

Rich Hill 2/3, 0 R, 0 H, 1 walk and 2 K. Overall ERA 2.08.

Chaz Roe 1 batter, a walk, 9.00.

Josh Outman 1/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks and 0 K. Overall ERA 3.12.

Shawn Kelley (W, 3-5, 4.15) 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks and 0 K.

The win puts the Yanks at 75-69. They are in 3rd in the AL East, 10 1/2 behind Baltimore (who they play in a DH today). They are four out of the final WC spot with 18 games to play.